• GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    It was a British base in Cyprus, not a Cypriot target. I don’t know about Iran, but I consider the UK to be an aggressor.

    Anyway, there’s also a good chance it was a false flag attack by israel to try to draw more belligerents into the war

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      2 days ago

      I don’t know about Iran, but I consider the UK to be an aggressor.

      Why? They didn’t even help the US out during the initial attack much to the Americans disappointment 😁

      It was only after Iran started randomly bombing oil refineries in saudi arabia, airports and hotels in dubai etc that the UK got involved

      Anyway, there’s also a good chance it was a false flag attack by israel to try to draw more belligerents into the war

      Entirely possible but from what I can see the islamic regime in Iran is just as incompetent as it looks

      They tried to strike back at Israel last year and had little success, now they’re targeting the smaller weaker neighbours to try and bully them into begging the US to give up

      On top of this, just like Russias invasion of Ukraine gave NATO a nice promotional boost, Im not sure Irans bombing of random other countries is doing anything but strengthening the argument for US bases in these countries for protection knowing they’d be exposed without them

      The IRGC is highly skilled at raping and murdering and torturing its own citizens, but outside of iran Im just not seeing anything other than pakistani style funding of islamic state terrorists (hezbollah/hamas) and the occasional drone

      we’ll have to see in a month if the straight of hormuz is still causing issues

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        2 days ago

        I think in general your view of the war situation is delusional. Agreed on coming back to this in a month.